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Syria’s civil war is playing out in Australia’s suburbs along sectarian lines — with some living in Sydney’s west too scared to speak, after beatings, a shooting and an alleged arson.

What happens when you stand up against a culture of violence and corruption in a game that is the national passion? You'd better be brave.

Inside the oldest continuously published newspaper in the southern hemisphere, a lone internet terminal in the early 1990s was regarded as a novelty, not as the time bomb it turned out to be.

Australia released a boy, convicted of people-smuggling and held in a maximum-security prison, after revelations that proved he was just that — an Indonesian boy. Here, the story of Ali Jasmin's homecoming.

Internationally feted, the director of the revived ancient Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Egypt faces corruption claims, MPs calling for his resignation, and a staff in revolt. Commandoes helped him escape the angry librarians — and of the rest, Ismail Serageldin is unfazed.